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Glass as a building material
Multilayered glass — Looking ahead
Looking ahead
A look at current architecture shows the
great variety of nnovative glass products
available for exterior and interior use.
Here it is not just transparency or design
advantages that are crucial, but develop
ments in bui ding physics as well. But
~ there are technical limitations affecting
manufacture and finishing formats that
can differ greatly from producer to pro
ducer.
The most recent progress in building
physics has meant that using insulating
glass can achieve very low heat loss, and
somet mes passive energy gains even
lead to heat gains.
In our atitudes, adaptable summer heat
= protection is an mportant topic. Selective
coat ngs have been developed, but the
aim is better adaptation to the changing
weather cond tions. This means that glaz
ng with changeable properties is
needed
Early products exist as prototypes, but
more progress is needed to do justice to
technical and economic aspects.
Development potential in the field of glass
technology is far from being exhausted,
so t seems I kely that glass as a building
material wil continue to impress us with
technical innovations in the future.